I watched the video the other day. He has a good sales pitch, but its nothing
more. He's implying 250 laptops will essentially be enough to force Intel to
release the code. This is non-sense. If they do it won't be the result of
force or pressure. $250,000 is nothing in the scheme of it. Even if he was
ordering 20,000 laptops (millions of dollars) it would make no difference to
Intel.
If your going to put pressure on Intel financially you need significant
numbers. Google *might* have those numbers with the chromebooks which have
sold millions. However that is no guarantee. NVIDIA refused to release code
after flying 20 or so developers to China over a project which involved
millions of units- yet that project ended up going with another graphics
chipset because NVIDIA didn't want to release the code.
People underestimate the value some companies put on keeping this code
proprietary. If its going to result in the competition gaining knowledge of
something it's a no-go area. Intel releases code because they've got nothing
to loose in the graphics arena. Atheros does the same when they have nothing
to loose and people demand it. Hoover they wouldn't do it if they thought
they had something to gain from keeping it proprietary.
